Embolden is a raidwide 5% party buff that lasts for 20 seconds. Because of that, you dont necessarily need to wait until your Soul Voice gauge reaches 80 or higher to use it. However - Try to stay at a medium to close distance by default. Make sure you still use your single-target oGCDs in AoE, since they are free You want to try to get those on the higher HP enemies. There is not a large gap in efficiency. Burst Rotation Silent Nocturne is a powerful ability, disabling an enemy for 3 seconds while your team focuses them down. This skill increases the damage dealt by 2/4/6% for your entire party depending on if you have 1/2/3 Coda stacks. You can think of this more like a cheatsheet. If so, you do not want to use when the soul gauge is full. 86):Becomes available when Apex Arrow is used having spent at least 80 points of your Soul Voice Gauge. There is somehow both more and less randomness in the class's usual move set, but it evens out in a way that mostly benefits Bard players. This effect does not work during fights, ending when enmity is generated. GShade was used by many to make their experience in the MMO prettier or simply to add some pizazz to their GPose pictures. Even if this only causes an extra half an IJ over the fight, its about even with adding 6 ticks of RS (compared to single snapping RS). Applying your DoTs is extremely important and if both are close to expiration, use Iron Jaws to reset them. The IJ should not be moved earlier unless you have prepull cards, in which case you may need to do it before Barraging. AP to WM transition: Weave BS WM BS RS BS if youre doing early RS, or just BS WM BS if youre doing late RS. First, you should always go for Refulgent Arrowinstead of Burst Shot when you have it up. Mage's Ballad (MB) is the next-strongest. (0) If you have a potion, use it before RS (a bit before the 2 appears in the countdown), Prioritize getting the 2nd BL on cooldown when its available (i.e. 70, it becomes Refulgent Arrow. Sidewinder, Empyreal Arrow, and All three have a recast time of 120 seconds, deal damage when cast (100 potency) and last for 45 seconds. To do this, you use RS about 12 seconds into WM (around when it has 18 seconds remaining), in the second oGCD window of a GCD. In dungeons, it is fine to use your songs in the same order. Early DoT snapping depends significantly on whether youre ending the buff window with an RA proc or not. If you have a natural IJ (from DoTs ending) right after RS goes up, and there are no other buffs at all, its a small gain to snap RS again just before it goes down. The core of this is a set of three songs youll cycle through. Such skills are often called oGCDs. Using more than two oGCDs between two GCDs will almost always cause clipping. It can be an inconsistent Job mostly because you depend so much on certain skill procs to deal damage and you cant be 100% certain of which skills youll have available during the fight. Great for healing up while doing long-range baited mechanics (e.g. If they arent applied yet, use Stormbite, then Caustic Bite. With a potency of 110, it has two charges and a cooldown of 15 seconds. The difference between a 4 stack Armys Muse and 3 stack Armys Muse can be over 100 potency, or even more if it causes you to lose a GCD under RS. seconds of a song, so once the timer is at three or less, you can move to the You get a chance, at 48, to reset the timer on bloodletter when your DoTs crit. Ladonsbite and Shadowbite play the role of Burst Shot and Refulgent Arrow, respectively. Your rotation will be based around having wander's minuet up whenever you're not moving, really. The end of WM, especially with the very last DoT tick, tends to have more PP usages, and you can also catch the 100 potency cast of MB itself. This is basically the order in which three songs should be used. As a physical job, Bards GCD skills - skills that share a 2.5 second base cooldown - are called Weaponskills. Iron Jaws (lv. Apex ArrowConsumes all Soul Voice to deliver an attack with a potency of 6 per Soul Voice expended (up to 600) to all enemies in a straight line before you. You will also want to be in It also receives a buff from Barragewhich increases Shadowbite potency to 270. Battle Voice (BV) should be used on cooldown to maximize uses. The effect depends on the song you play, but all of them have an 80% chance to proc Repertoire every three seconds after a song begins. Since most of them are just stronger versions of their base versions, we are only going to talk about the specifics in cases where a new effect is added. Its important to understand your context, too. Troubadour - Simply enough, try to use this when the party is going to take a lot of damage. Quick Nock You should test and make sure that you can actually pull off the PP in the middle there. This will shake up the optimal timings a little bit, but should still keep everything lining up with a little wiggle room. This should set up nicely for a PP MB double weave 12 GCDs later on the WM to MB transition, assuming full stacks of Armys Muse. abilities. Radiant Finale, and Battle Voice, alongside other Now let's say you intentionally go out of your way to mess up your opener and use Barrage on a Heavy Shot, and lets say it only hits for 500 x 3 hits = 1,500 damage. the Shadowbringers expansion). Skip the Changes from Stormblood section. Get these from Rowena's Representatives near the Against >6 targets, the song strength order is MB > AP > WM. Otherwise, youre going to be sitting on Armys Paeon for too long. If there are no such effects, instead adds a barrier that absorbs the next cleansable detrimental effect within 30s.Recast time: 45s. Applying and/or resetting your DoTs is still the first on the list. Tooltips here are rewritten from the official translations to clarify some portions that arent obvious in the official job guide. Then start spamming Quick Nock. If either happens, you wipe out most if not all of the gains. Dont use Shadowbite against a single target. The first is all of the damage dealing and utility skills. Now take your bow and prepare to become the bard whose songs will remain! if you would only get one EA in that MB). 10):Hitting an enemy with this skill binds them. Most of the skills and traits after that point are upgrades to existing skills. After the opener (i.e. We hope you enjoy the guide! He is also part of The Balance as a Bard mentor. You Barrage and/or Sidewinder" is there because This skill is extremely useful in endgame situations when bosses have attacks that can be interrupted. Song ticks (proc chances) happen based on the song timer - at 42s, 39s, 36s, Shadowbite (Lv. available for that level. Bards (and the typically associated Archers) are probably one of the most common archetypes in MMO games and FFXIVhas its own version. There are leaders and pillars of this community actively silencing or proliferating anyone speaking out. Welcome to the Basics Guide for Bard! Hold Barrage until the next GCD if you already have an Refulgent proc. If none of the above are true, fire off Burst Shots until you have something better to do with your GCDs. Dont wait on the first EA in MB if it would push it past the midpoint (i.e. Theyre handy sometimes in solo-friendly content if you need to kite or run away. [2019/11/6] Added 5.1 updates, including some revisions to the IJ rules. Due to the addition of Soul Voice, its more important than ever to minimize the amount of songless time, and avoid letting DoT ticks fall in songless time. This makes IJ very powerful when you have raid buffs stacked up. With that in mind, let's look at the Bard's toolkit. You arent at 4 stacks of AP at 20s in. If you are a newer player, and you want to start leveling up, then you should focus on quests wherever possible. Bard has three songs, which have different effects (Repertoire) that have a 40% chance to trigger every time a DoT deals damage to a target. value. 4 Basics of Bard. Work in Progress - This is mostly going to start out with the macros I myself use, then go from there. The best potion as of 6.00 is high-quality Grade 5 Tincture of Dexterity. Apex Arrow (Lv. If its early, its fine to use BL EA BL triple weaved (this is one of the only acceptable triple weaves). When entering WM, you should also use RS (more advanced usage is discussed later in the guide). it. To start, you ideally want to lead in with this sequence as you get to the But with practice, youll get the hang of it. Your priorities between level 61 and 70 are to keep using Stormbiteand Caustic Bitewhen enemies are not afflicted and use Iron Jawsto reset their timer. end of Army's Paeon: After that, there is no set order - that will depend on your Soul Gauge and locked behind those up to and including Refulgent Arrow at level This will cause you to also have a BL timer of ~2-3s when you enter the next MB. The word "bard" ordinarily puts folk in mind of those itinerant minstrels, fair of voice and nimble of finger, who earn their coin performing in taverns and the halls of great lords. Head Graze: Anything that can be interrupted will have a pulsing red castbar. So Chain and Litany are roughly as good as 5% damage buffs. So when you use IJ (or SB or CB), the buffs (Raging Strikes, Resistance Up), and debuffs (Vulnerability Up, Weakness), both on you and your target get snapshotted. If you DO have an RA proc (IJ replacing a RA): dont early snap 5% of buffs, but 10% of buffs can be early snapped by about 10 seconds. Apex Arrow as described earlier, this should all come together As a Bard, you'll use a pair of damage over time debuffs, which can trigger bonus effects during your songs. Related to the Apex Arrow/Blast Arrowskills, the Soul Voice gauge charges five points every time Repertoire procs. In short, be ready to change targets often. Pressing buttons in the wrong order is usually better than pressing nothing. If you plan to use it on the second-to-last GCD, you end up using more IJs over the course of the fight. It turns out these two plans are almost exactly equal in DPS in a vacuum, but using IJ as late as possible keeps better alignment with party buffs. Wait at least 0.25s between the BS and WM to ensure you get 5 GCDs in Muse. How to Play Bard in FFXIV As a Range Physical DPS, the job of Bards is to provide potent damage while popping buffs and utilities at the same time. starting from the 2nd RS), you can elect to either align RS with the beginning of WM or the end. Use physical ranged attacks to inflict a steady stream of damage. Be careful of Shadowbite's limited hit To do so, you must accept the quest Way of the Archerat the Archers Guild in New Gridania(X: 15.4 Y: 12). But those BLM are wrong. (Related exception for two targets: If you can hit Quite early on, you get some DoTs to keep up and it's easy to get distracted by mechanics and fail to refresh them before they expire. [2019/7/9] Updated AP WM transition recommendation based on Muse not having application delay. Wait These dont appear often at endgame, but keep an eye out anyway. 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